Five companies create a quarter of plastic pollution: Study [Video]

(The Hill) – Five companies are responsible for a quarter of all plastic waste worldwide, according to a study published in the journal Science Advances.

The study, conducted by the Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research, involved surveys of plastic waste collected from 2018 to 2022.

Of more than 1.8 million pieces of waste collected, more than 900,000 had visible branding. The researchers identified just under 60 companies as the source of the majority of global plastic waste, and five companies as the source of 24 percent of it. Coca-Cola alone was the source of 11 percent of global branded plastic pollution, the biggest single contributor identified by the researchers. The other four biggest producers were, in order, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Danone and Altria.

The study also found that for every 1 percent increase in plastic usage, its contribution to plastic pollution increases 1 corresponding percent.

It comes in the wake of a …